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JAM 2008 Poster (PDF 764 KB)
The National Museum of American History has issued a new poster to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month.  The poster features Ella Fitzgerald, “The First Lady of Song,” with an illustration by the American artist Jeffrey Fulvimari. 

The museum has printed 250,000 posters for free distribution to music and jazz educators, librarians, music merchants and manufacturers, radio stations, arts presenters, and U.S. embassies worldwide.  To request a copy, write jazz@si.edu.

JAM 2007 Public Service Announcement, Download the most recent public service announcement (PDF).

JAM 2007 Poster (PDF 474k)
Featuring a drawing of Louis Armstrong by LeRoy Neiman.

JAM 2006 Poster (PDF 344k)
Featuring a portrait of Duke Ellington by LeRoy Neiman.

JAM 2005 Poster (PDF 1.2MB)
Featuring composer-bandleader-percussionist
Tito Puente.

JAM 2004 Poster (PDF 30k)
Featuring a drawing by Al Hirschfeld of clarinetist-bandleader Artie Shaw.

JAM 2003 Poster (JPG 241 KB)
Featuring Billie Holiday. Lady Day, linoleum print, by artist Peter Bodge from the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

JAM 2002 Poster (PDF 311k)
Featuring a linoleum print of Dizzy Gillespie by the artist Peter Bodge.

Artist    Title

July 23
Trumpeter Emmett Berry born 1915 in Macon, GA.



Pianist/composer Thelonious Monk records Criss-Cross 1951



Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy born 1934 in New York, NY.

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